29 A Familiar Face 3 (1/2)

I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn't hear the wiz of the arrow, it flew quickly and decisively hitting me in the shoulder. It ripped through the shirt and viciously bit into my shoulder, the force of the arrow almost knocking me over.

”Alice!” Haru yelled, rushing towards me, but it felt like everything had slowed to a snail's pace. My brain was still trying to process that I'd just been hit with an arrow.

Gritting my teeth, I raise my hand and touch the arrow shaft. It was in deep, where in the hell had that come from? Raising my head I looked for the source of the arrow, but we were just in a room.

I didn't see anything, it was too dark. Haru was in front of me, pressing a hand onto my shoulder whilst looking at the arrow that was stuck in my shoulder. Why was I the only one that gets targeted for this shit?!

”Get down!” Envy's voice sounded this time, the glittering tip of an arrow came into view heading straight for my eye this time. In an instant a knife appeared and slammed into the arrow, diverting it off course and it flew harmlessly past my face.

Haru dragged me down to the ground as another arrow whizzed by my head. He pulled me towards the table, using it as cover from the hidden arrows that were flying throughout the room now.

My body hit the ground, driving the arrow deeper into my shoulder. Haru quickly flips the table over and I wiggle forwards protecting myself. Looking at my shoulder, I knew that the arrow needed to come out, every time I slide across the ground I jarred it and it dug deeper into my flesh.

”Pull...pull the arrow...out!” I grunt as I try my best not to slam my shoulder with the arrow onto anything. It was way to hard to maneuver like this, it had to come out.

”Are you sure?” Haru hesitated.

I glared at him. Huffing slightly, I reach an arm out, wrapping a hand around the shaft of the arrow. If he wouldn't pull it out for me, I suppose I had no choice but to do it myself.

Grunting to myself I began to pull, the tears began to pour out of my eyes. Even though I wanted to pull with all my might, I couldn't bring myself to do it. The pain was unbearable, every time I yanked on it, the arrowhead seemed to dig deeper into my flesh.

Releasing my hold on the arrow, I decided that I couldn't yank it out with brute force. My only option was to leave it for now, but it would be a hassle to just leave it like it was, it was causing far to much pain.

Grabbing the arrow again, I decided to break the shaft of the arrow snapping it down so that it wouldn't cause me to much pain every time I moved. It broke rather easily, throwing the broken bit away, I drag a few deep breaths into my lungs.

My vision felt off, it was getting blurry. Looking down at my shoulder, I could see that the flesh was turning a bit of a nasty looking purple, looked like I'd been poisoned.

”Misstress!” Envy's voice sounded like an airhorn right by my ear. Looking towards him, I saw that his eyes were glowing green. There was blood on his face as well, like I'd splattered. Blood?

Wait... where had the blood come from? My head was spinning.

”Hold still,” he snapped quickly and then I saw the knife in his hand. Wait what was he going to do with the knife.

”We need to treat the poison,” Haru's voice sounds this time by my other ear. I felt something prick my flesh, turning my head I notice a syringe of sort poking out of my shoulder.

At the same time, a painful sensation began to radiate from my other shoulder. Envy was using a knife to carve a line opening the skin around my arrow wound. Blood began to run down my shoulder and over my chest.

In the next instant, I felt a ripping and I could help but scream, as the rest of the arrow was wretched out of my shoulder. ”Fuck! Envy,” I cried softly as I pressed a hand to my shoulder. It was throbbing.